The transpacific partnership (TPP) is not a partnership in the just sense. Partnership assumes equal rights and representation for all those invested and participating in decision making. In part due to the flawed stipulations, TPP fails on several levels to help participating countries, like Vietnam, the freedom to develop their own national aesthetic.
In an increasingly interconnected world economy, governments seeking to build and define their national aesthetics should consider the legacies of their policies. After generations of economic barriers to entry between nations, bringing together business without policy interventions threatens basic human rights and liberties that keep businesses accountable. TPP would undermine these protective mechanisms, laying the framework for economic dependencies that would deteriorate the value of public goods like environmental quality. Defining a "new normal" would have serious repercussions for countries like Vietnam, that could essentially improve the standard of living for many of their workers in industry by way of exporting their own national aesthetic. TPP would place the power of Vietnam's development in the hands of private corporations and giving less autonomy to the Vietnamese in Vietnam.
When in reality human rights and the environment should be weighed greater than that of corporate interests, TPP represents a a failure between involved parties to effectively manage short-term gain in favor of large term investments.
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